Planning and Goal Setting for your small business
Depending on whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist, the year is half over or there’s half left. Either way, there is still time to achieve great things in 2011. Step 1. Know where you are now You can’t achieve anything until you know where you are now so pull up some stats. Print out […]
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Why is it that some people seem to move ahead by leaps and bounds while other people who are perhaps more talented seem to be left behind in the dust? Seth Godin said it best in Linchpin: Are You Indispensable. He wrote: “Real artists ship.” What did he mean? You don’t have to be the
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I suspect I’m not terribly different from most entrepreneurs. I’ve got a lot of balls that I’m trying to keep up in the air. Not only that, I continually get new ideas. Some of them are crap, but some of them are actually things that I plan to implement. I’ve tried a number of ways
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This past weekend I attended Podcamp Toronto. It was an amazing weekend, in part because of the people who were there and in part because I had a plan. I went into the weekend knowing what I needed to get out of the event and how to get it. My personal event strategy is one
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Last Friday, after about seven hours on the phone with tech support, it was determined that while my laptop wasn’t quite dead yet, it was well on the way. And couldn’t be brought back to life without some major repairs: a new motherboard, memory and whatever else isn’t working. On the plus side, this was
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I have to confess that I’ve been dragging my feet about using Google Analytics. Everyone was telling me how important it was but it just didn’t seem like a priority. My web hosting gives me fairly good stats on traffic, keywords people were using and the countries visitors are from. What more could Google Analytics
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Ah … the first day of school. It doesn’t matter how long it’s been since I’ve headed off to class the day after Labour Day, September still feels like the true beginning of the year. Everything is possible. And although I can relive the beginning of the school vicariously through my son, I also use
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Yesterday I wrote about the benefits of being part of a mastermind group. However, any mastermind is only as strong as its members. So if you are creating (or joining an existing group) choose wisely. How many? Unfortunately, there is no hard and fast rule about what’s the optimum number for a successful mastermind group.
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If you’ve been in business for more than five minutes you’ve probably heard the term mastermind. Many online programs, courses and mentoring programs call themselves mastermind groups. And while these programs may be useful, informative and help you grow your business, they are usually not true mastermind groups. So what is a mastermind? It is
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By Dennis J. Hocker, Ph.D. Success and achieving goals are two topics that have universal appeal. You would think that something that commands the interest of so many people would be understood and used by nearly everyone. However, what I have discovered is that most people make the same mistakes again and again. They never
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